Bias in Science: Scientific method has been a very useful way of expanding our knowledge in many areas of life, especially the physical sciences. But science, especially psychology, can be led astray by not-so-obvious human biases, ranging from experimenters deliberately lying to fooling themselves as well as their subjects to produce an incorrect and biased, but apparently scientific, outcome. Ashby Village member Charley Tart, Professor Emeritus from UC Davis, will describe some of the bias problems he has been personally involved with and lead a discussion on how bias applies to our everyday lives as well as formal knowledge-seeking activities like science

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